Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

When Google's web browser, Chrome , first came out, as quick and simple as it was, it seemed to lack a few of the extensions and features that were useful in Mozilla FireFox , especially for developers. Recently though, after having trouble with massive memory leaks in FireFox ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak ), Chrome got another try out ( Internet Explorer still seems to take forever to load up and feels like its dominating the browsing experience). No surprises in Chrome's simplicity, speed and efficiency, and the way it neatly lets you get on with browsing the web. It also come with nifty little developer tools, showing download speeds, CSS/HTML structure, access to scripts, all of which can be found from the page button link as shown in the video below, using the Page button > Developer > Developer tools link (or key combination CTRL + SHIFT + I). As always it boils down to personal preference and it's good that there is this choice (nevermind the be...

It looks like yet another operating system is going to be developed for smartphones and mobiles and released to the world. Doing the rounds on the news sites and blogs is that story that Nokia and Intel have joined forces to work on a new OS. The spin is that this Linux based OS will not just be aimed at one hardware platform but can be scaled to be used on smartphones , TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems, or netbooks and anything in between. MeeGo is a merging of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects. With the successful uptake of Android in the mobile world and the related Chrome OS to be released, Windows 7 Mobile doing something to restore Microsoft's credibility, Palm entering the fray with their WebOS, the iPhone OS being so successful with the iPhone, and Symbian to mention but a few, how much more room in the market is there for OSs or is this two global corporations trying to emulate Google's success in their release of Android. Unless, of course...

I'm kind of confused about  Apple's iPad  and not really sure where it's going to fit in, in gadget world. Too big to be carried in the pocket and whipped out to browse the internet whilst stuck on the train, yet not feature rich enough to have anything meaningful that many smart phones or netbooks don't already have or can do, except the pretty nice bookcase and page turning stuff. To quote Jimmy Carr "It's like somebody inventing the wheel, then a year later saying 'Look! I've invented an even bigger wheel'." Although that chair Steve Jobs sat in whilst announcing it looked quite cool. Anyways, making the rounds on the internet now is a youtube video of a mock up that has been created of a Chrome OS UI on a tablet from Google. Admittedly it's only a concept from a Chrome designer posted on a third party site probably done in his spare time, but worth keeping an eye on and probably indicating that Apple won't have it all it's ow...